Robert X. Trencheny Jr.

Head of Infrastructure and IT

2024

Advisor

2017

Founding Engineer

2016 - 2017

Built and maintained Go REST and WebSocket API powering real time communication and collaboration for university classrooms

Head of Infrastructure

2023 - 2024

Head Of Infrastructure

2020 - 2023

• Built and supported all infrastructure, completing a migration from Heroku to an AWS based Dockerized system running on Kubernetes built with Terraform • Less than 10 minutes downtime recorded in entire tenure • Led deployments of our application inside our clients networks, introducing complex technologies (for them) such as Kubernetes and Postgres • Built out early stage IT infrastructure including implementation of Okta and Kolide • Led and oversaw all IT and infrastructure related compliance, attaining SOC 2 Type I and Type II, HIPAA and ISO 27001

iOS and Backend Engineer

2016 - 2020

I single handedly developed and continue to maintain Home Assistant Companion for iOS, a companion app to the primary Home Assistant product with over 5,000,000 MAUs. I also developed numerous third party integrations to Home Assistant working hand in hand with our diverse set of developers.

Co-Founder

2018 - 2019

BloomJoy builds media businesses for influencers. Backed by Y Combinator, Transmedia Capital, and others. I built infrastructure and applications that scaled WordPress to over 50M+ MAU and had multiple websites enter the top 100 most visited in the US Alexa ranks, enabling us to become one of the top social publishers on Facebook.

Internet Consultant

2005 - 2018

Being self-employed has taught me a lot about business and the technology industry. As an Internet Consultant, I managed servers and networks, built websites, performed website maintenance, for clients both big and small. By deploying a wide range of technology I became successful among a select group of clients, all of whom I am still with today.

CTO

2016 - 2017

SuperFeed Labs is a full-service digital media company specializing in efficient viral growth and responding to emails in a somewhat timely fashion. Our editorial-focused machine learning helps us generate over 30M+ monthly unique visitors using a fraction of the resources it takes other publishers to do the same. I personally led all technical development and management of our websites and tools. Our original website, PizzaBottle, grew to 30M+ monthly uniques and the 54th most visited mobile website in the United States.

Software Engineer

2015 - 2015

As a software engineer at Gyroscope, I implemented new features and improved existing functionality in the Go backend and Python frontend. I also was the primary systems administrator. As a sysadmin, I improved existing operations by adding automation and enhancing existing monitoring systems. I also successfully migrated all operations from the AWS us-east-1 region to us-west-2 while adding in fault tolerance at every level of the infrastructure, all without causing user facing downtime.

Senior Engineer

2013 - 2015

As senior engineer at MapJam, I successfully navigated a full platform transition from PHP and JSON flat file storage to node.js, Heroku and MongoDB. Later, I deployed our own own grown architecture to Amazon AWS in a multi-region, multi-AZ layout with failover and monitoring. In addition, I deployed our first OpenStreetMap infrastructure on to AWS EC2 and later Google Compute Engine.

CTO

2013 - 2015